## Monday, August 31 Last day of August. "Summer" the concept came to an abrupt end last week, with a weirdly early start to the school year. Hoping for a nice, long, crisp and cool autumn - a full and maybe prolonged season for once. _{(permalink: [[2026-08 August#Monday, August 31|🔗]])} --- ## Thursday, August 20 - Being able to sit and just participate in a meeting without simultaneously capturing notes frees up my brain to process information, and lessens anxiety that I'm going to forget something later. So no matter where we end up on the whole "is AI the devil?" question...having my little Plaud recorder working as a meeting secretary has made my life measurably better. AI recording/note transcribing is a game changer. _{(permalink: [[2026-08 August#Thursday, August 20|🔗]])}